Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 2 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 3 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 4 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 5 | This is called Reynaud 's Phenomenon , after the French doctor who first described it in the thesis for his medical degree in 1862 . |
| 6 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 7 | I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on . |
| 8 | ‘ Lady Amelia , you admitted that you found Lady Eleanor 's corpse in her room and , together with these sweet sisters , moved it to the foot of the stairs to make her death appear an accident . |
| 9 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 10 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 11 | He stroked it with the side of the whisky glass , smiled , drank . |
| 12 | Rust manoeuvred his wheelchair out from behind the desk and stopped it in the centre of the room . |
| 13 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 14 | The idea came in nineteen ninety two , the early part of nineteen ninety two er from Doctor Frank er who was er sitting on the Race Training Committee who approached it from the point of view we need to obviously broaden the triangle on the competitive side . |
| 15 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 16 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 17 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 18 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 19 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 20 | And tried it in the midst of a combat zone ? ’ |
| 21 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 22 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 23 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 24 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 25 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 26 | Several companies who had previously written ‘ in-house ’ for the designer changed it to the name of an individual ; some agencies changed the name of the individual to that of their agency . |
| 27 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 28 | Miller dedicated it to the Earl of Macclesfield , then President of the Royal Society and to the Fellows ‘ for the improving of natural knowledge ’ . |
| 29 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |